The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . u of thc Secretary genus {Gypogeranm), which indeed mightbe ranged with them,—in possessing more than twelve cervical ver-tebrae f: their fourchette, though extremely stout and wide,is flattened as in the Owls; the sternal crest low, and reducedanteriorly; and the posterior edge of the sternum (fig. 73), insome of those of America, is doubly emarginated for sometime: they even further accord with the Owls in having a ribless than the Falconine genera. The Vul
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . u of thc Secretary genus {Gypogeranm), which indeed mightbe ranged with them,—in possessing more than twelve cervical ver-tebrae f: their fourchette, though extremely stout and wide,is flattened as in the Owls; the sternal crest low, and reducedanteriorly; and the posterior edge of the sternum (fig. 73), insome of those of America, is doubly emarginated for sometime: they even further accord with the Owls in having a ribless than the Falconine genera. The Vultures, properly so called, {Vultur, Cuv.) — Have a large and strong beak, the nostrils opening cross-wise atits base, the head and neck without feathers or caruncles, and acollar of long feathers, or of down, at the base of the have hitherto been found only on the old continent [butnone of the tribe are met with in AustraUa, where the absenceof larger indigenous quadrupeds than the Kangaroos, and ofpredatory animals that should leave the surplus of theirmeals to putrefy, indicate that they could not be sup-ported.] X. 73.—sternal apparatus of the Common 1 he keel (bj is rather more developed ialcons ; less bo in the Eairles. of I * Copied from MGil t In the Iongenerally, but not alwayitill they disappear in i rtebi i to be ; Rapnrious Birds o] Britain.— adverted to, the thirteenth vertebrairs a pair of minute ribs, which diminishspecies; if, therefore, the thirteenth ch I g a rib, the dilTerei\ce is essentially trifiinu^, and does raffect the above generalization —Ed. t The /llectnra, Gray, which has been ignorantly clnVultures, is in every respect a true Poultry bird. YITILTIUIRIE-S
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